Brazil

Brazil’s new President Jair Bolsonaro sat down with American media after his meeting with President Donald Trump Tuesday and discussed his desire to “make Brazil great” and how he owes his life “to God” after being stabbed on the campaign trail. The U.S. and Brazil have had a fraught relationship in the past, but Bolsonaro

Brazil will funnel humanitarian aid to Venezuela’s anti-Maduro forces by sending shipments to its northern border that opposition forces will pick up and bring into the country. Venezuelan opposition leader and interim president Juan Guaidó is organizing the operation, according to a Brazilian presidential spokesman, BBC News reported Wednesday. “The government of acting President Juan Guaidó

Dozens are dead and hundreds are missing after a dam collapsed in Brazil, flooding an iron mine and burying parts of a nearby town, CNN reports. A dam owned by the Brazilian mining giant Vale in the state of Minas Gerais broke Friday. A flood of water and debris rushed into the Córrego do Feijão

Two far leftist groups occupied a luxury beachfront triplex property Monday that Brazilian police say leftist ex-president and current presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received as part of a kickback from companies benefitting from corruption during his tenure. The “triplex” became the key piece of evidence that Lula, as he is typically known

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) ruled early Thursday morning against a habeas corpus petition that would have kept socialist former president and presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from beginning to serve a 12-year prison sentence for corruption. The decision does not prevent Lula, as he is popularly known, from attempted to register on

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and his father Kim Jong-il reportedly applied for Western visas using Brazilian passports back in the 1990’s. Reuters published what it claims are photocopies of Brazilian passports held by both Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-il, which they used to apply for visas. “They used these Brazilian passports, which clearly show